RiseCast Report Ingestion Policy

RiseCast surfaces fly shop fishing reports to anglers. This page describes exactly how our crawler behaves and how shops can control it.

How RiseCastBot behaves

• User-Agent: RiseCastBot/1.0 (+https://risecast.fish/bot). We never disguise the bot.
• robots.txt is fetched and honored before every crawl (cached for 24 hours). If your robots.txt disallows us, we do not fetch.
• Only configured report pages and feeds are fetched, each at most twice a day. We do not spider whole sites. When a blog feed lists a new report post, we read that one post.
• On any error, including a 429 or 5xx response, we stop and leave that page alone for at least 12 hours.

What we publish

• Structured summaries only: current conditions, recommended flies, active hatches, and a report date. Each summary is written in our own words by an AI model from your report; we only summarize a page again when it has changed.
• A summary is shown only while it is current: it leads for two weeks after your report date and is removed after six weeks.
• Every report card shows the shop's name and links back to the original report.
• We never republish full report text, images, or anything beyond the structured summary.

Our position: a short structured summary with prominent attribution and a link drives traffic to shops rather than replacing them. If you disagree for your shop, opting out is one email.

Opting out

Email support@risecast.fish with your shop domain and we will remove your site from the source list and delete stored summaries, normally within 3 business days. A robots.txt disallow for RiseCastBot has the same effect without email.

Prefer to send a feed?

If you run a shop and would rather send us your reports directly, an RSS or JSON feed gets them into RiseCast faster and more accurately than reading your page, with the same attribution and link back. There is no charge either way. Contact support@risecast.fish.